The Particle Physics Group

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The Particle Physics Group

• 2007 Christmas Message
• Roger Barlow

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Outlook
Last year's conclusion

• 2006 was busy
• 2007 will be very busy
• Have a good break over Christmas
• (Youll need it)

I was right!
Not very difficult
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Predictions are dangerous

• Studies of Bs mixing, using similar techniques,
  show that the prospects for measuring Bs mixing
  with an upgraded vertex detector are good John
  JarosSLD, 1996 conference
• D0 -?D0 mixing is expected to be too small to
  measure with BaBar BaBar physics book, 1998

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2007

• Bs mass difference finally measured with CDF and
  D?
• Definite evidence of D0 -?D0 mixing from BaBar
  and Belle

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The group

• Wide range of front rank physics
• (accelerators, eScience, theory, D ?, BaBar,
  ATLAS, FP420, Nemo, SuperNemo)
• Group now 99 strong (and growing)
• Many successful grant applications (eScience, D
  ?, accelerators)
• New Secretary

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That Tier2 slide
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• EPS conference at Manchester
• Big success (560 delegates)
• Financially positive
• Big positive impact for Manchester (group,
  university, city)
• Thanks to all involved (Jo, Stefan, Anne, Sabah,
  Scientific Secretaries and everyone)

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Prediction for 2008

• Despite recent gloom and doom, Particle Physics
  will survive and will flourish
• ILC is bigger than STFC (or DoE)
• Some sort of Linear electron-positron Collider
  will be built some day
• Nous gagnerons, car nous sommes les plus forts